Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can. — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I can give a precise day when Christ came to me and began to transform my life with his power and love. — Keith Ward Copy Share Image
I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough… — Henry Crew Copy Share Image
Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting.… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
There isn't a clear goal in sight. Osama bin Laden's organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had… — Bill Lee Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent'… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now… — Storm Saulter Copy Share Image
I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise. — Phil Lord Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs. — William Thurston Copy Share Image
God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image